:00:00. > :00:00.29th of March. That's all from the BBC's news at six. We now
:00:00. > :00:00.Welcome to North West Tonight with Roger Johnson and Annabel Tiffin.
:00:07. > :00:13.More than 170,000 people sign a petition calling on
:00:14. > :00:16.three-jobs George to choose which one he wants to do.
:00:17. > :00:19.Calls are growing for the Tatton MP to stand down after becoming
:00:20. > :00:25.Why post-Brexit Wirral no longer feels like home
:00:26. > :00:29.for the family with German roots who are going back.
:00:30. > :00:31.My party invitation had been taken away from me -
:00:32. > :00:35.As the aftermath of the referendum unfolded,
:00:36. > :00:39.it just got worse and worse and worse.
:00:40. > :00:41.Turning back time - enthusiasts campaign
:00:42. > :00:53.to reopen part of one of our most picturesque canals.
:00:54. > :00:59.And double delight - how jolly and Nancy's parents into change
:01:00. > :01:01.perceptions of Down's syndrome. We've had enough of, sort of,
:01:02. > :01:04.people feeling sorry for us, because there's nothing to feel
:01:05. > :01:07.sorry for us about. The pressure has mounted
:01:08. > :01:15.on the Tatton MP George Osborne today, after his appointment
:01:16. > :01:17.as editor of the More than 170,000 people
:01:18. > :01:23.have signed a petition, calling on the former Chancellor
:01:24. > :01:26.to decide which job he wants to do. Mr Osborne also has paid
:01:27. > :01:29.roles as an adviser to an asset management fund,
:01:30. > :01:31.and a fellowship with He's also earned ?780,000
:01:32. > :01:36.pounds making speeches So, can he remain an effective
:01:37. > :01:43.representative for his constituents? George Osborne is facing calls
:01:44. > :01:51.to resign as MP for Tatton or forget about editing
:01:52. > :01:56.the London evening standard. Today a petition signed by thousands
:01:57. > :01:58.of people was handed in to his constiuency
:01:59. > :02:10.office in Knutsford. Everybody feels the same way, and we
:02:11. > :02:16.don't feel that he is going to be able to give us the time required to
:02:17. > :02:17.do his job as an MP, and he should stand down maybe and let somebody
:02:18. > :02:19.else do that for us. The former Chancellor takes
:02:20. > :02:21.up his new job in May but although former ministers
:02:22. > :02:24.are required to tell a parliamentary watchdog about outside jobs,
:02:25. > :02:34.he didn't wait for its advice. Will the Minister confirmed what
:02:35. > :02:38.action the Government intends to take against ex-ministers who appear
:02:39. > :02:42.to be in breach of the ministerial code on their failure to seek advice
:02:43. > :02:44.before accepting an appointment? Mr Osborne has several gets paid
:02:45. > :02:47.?650,000 a year to advise Blackrock Investment Institute -
:02:48. > :02:49.three after-dinner speeches for the Washington Speaker's Bureau
:02:50. > :02:51.earned him 98,000. In total, he's made around
:02:52. > :02:54.780,000 from all speeches He's also the unpaid chairman of
:02:55. > :03:06.the Northern Powerhouse Partnership. I thought it was important to be
:03:07. > :03:13.here, although unfortunately we have missed the deadline for the Evening
:03:14. > :03:18.Standard. In my view... In my view, Mr Speaker, this Parliament is
:03:19. > :03:21.enhanced when we have people of different experience take part in
:03:22. > :03:26.our robust debate, and when people who have held senior ministerial
:03:27. > :03:27.office continued to contribute to the decisions we have to make.
:03:28. > :03:30.In a letter, the former chairman of Committee on Standards
:03:31. > :03:51.The committee for standards and public life will be looking at this
:03:52. > :03:53.matter again and it is of ongoing concern to the public widely and has
:03:54. > :03:55.been for many years. Later this week,
:03:56. > :03:56.George Osbourne will be at the Tatton Conservative
:03:57. > :03:58.Assocation Annual General Meeting, where he will have to explain how
:03:59. > :04:01.he can really be the voice Yunus Mulla,
:04:02. > :04:06.BBC North West, Knutsford. Staying with politics,
:04:07. > :04:08.and police have sent two more files about the Conservatives' spending
:04:09. > :04:10.during the last General Election It was previously announced that
:04:11. > :04:16.Bury North MP David Nuttall Now Cheadle's Mary Robinson
:04:17. > :04:21.and Hazel Grove's William Wragg will also have their expenditure
:04:22. > :04:27.scrutinised. A family from Merseyside say
:04:28. > :04:29.they're going to leave Graham Kavanagh, who's English,
:04:30. > :04:35.and his German wife Wibke They say, for personal
:04:36. > :04:39.and political reasons, it's the best thing to do for them
:04:40. > :04:42.and their six-year-old Our Merseyside reporter,
:04:43. > :04:47.Andy Gill, has the story. Wibke Hott at home in
:04:48. > :04:50.Wallasey this afternoon - she and her husband are looking
:04:51. > :04:53.for new jobs in or near She came to Liverpool to study
:04:54. > :04:59.community arts, but, after 19 years on Merseyside,
:05:00. > :05:04.Brexit means they now want to leave. After years of being here, bringing
:05:05. > :05:06.ourselves into the community, of being fully active members
:05:07. > :05:12.of our community, all of a sudden By extension,
:05:13. > :05:17.my child is seen as other. At the Tory Party Conference,
:05:18. > :05:20.where they talked about, every company has to have a list
:05:21. > :05:23.of foreign people working Brexit hasn't happened yet,
:05:24. > :05:29.so why not wait to see, once it has happened,
:05:30. > :05:31.what the UK will be like and what things
:05:32. > :05:34.will be like for you? There's nothing here
:05:35. > :05:36.that tells me that this I think there is going to be really
:05:37. > :05:42.long lasting repercussions, and it will take probably ten or 15
:05:43. > :05:46.years until it stabilises. Now, if we wouldn't
:05:47. > :05:48.have a six-year-old daughter, But for our daughter,
:05:49. > :05:55.I don't think that is OK, You have said that this is a lot
:05:56. > :06:01.to do with what you think your daughter's future will be,
:06:02. > :06:03.but it will also be I think there will be
:06:04. > :06:11.aspects of her life that really will be disrupted,
:06:12. > :06:14.and I think the biggest is, really, to leave her family behind,
:06:15. > :06:16.and to leave her grandmother, her aunts and uncles,
:06:17. > :06:18.her cousins behind, She is really, really
:06:19. > :06:20.devastated about that. Wibke's been involved a number
:06:21. > :06:27.of community projects, leading a choir for
:06:28. > :06:29.recovering addicts, She's an inspiration to myself
:06:30. > :06:35.and my daughter and every And it's a real shame
:06:36. > :06:42.that our community and our country Wibke was on Question Time when it
:06:43. > :06:49.came from Wallasey last month. I have an English husband,
:06:50. > :06:54.I have a German-English child, and I can now see what I do
:06:55. > :06:57.with this and how I reconcile this shaking-up to my identity that this
:06:58. > :06:59.referendum has caused. A referendum that has
:07:00. > :07:03.been campaigned on lies, And received some hostile
:07:04. > :07:08.reaction on social media. So, some people are suggesting
:07:09. > :07:12.I go and join some other I mean, everyone says that it's not
:07:13. > :07:20.racist, what's happening, but there are racist undertones
:07:21. > :07:22.to the people behind It just leaves a bad taste
:07:23. > :07:28.in the mouth, effectively. This was a democratic vote
:07:29. > :07:31.and you could vote either way. The Leave camp won,
:07:32. > :07:34.so, after 19 years living here, why not just accept that vote
:07:35. > :07:40.and carry on as best you can? If those who lost in a democratic
:07:41. > :07:44.vote stopped shouting about how unfair they find it and how
:07:45. > :07:46.they don't agree with it, we would not see any change,
:07:47. > :07:51.so I think it is our job to keep shouting out about what it is
:07:52. > :07:54.that we would like to see The family plan to move
:07:55. > :07:57.to Germany in August. Andy Gill,
:07:58. > :08:09.BBC North West Tonight, Wallasey. If you want to see more of that
:08:10. > :08:11.story and other similar ones, look for BBC stories on Facebook.
:08:12. > :08:13.Talks aimed at resolving a dispute between Merseyrail and the rail
:08:14. > :08:19.union the RMT have broken down with each side blaming the other.
:08:20. > :08:29.There will be more talks during the Grand National Festival. Talks broke
:08:30. > :08:33.down today. The RMT says the introduction of driver only trains
:08:34. > :08:38.will be unsafe and Merseyrail has accused them of refusing to discuss
:08:39. > :08:39.the role of on-board staff when trains are introduced in three
:08:40. > :08:41.years' time. It will undoubtedly cause
:08:42. > :08:43.immeasurable damage to the economy at large, if the RMT executive
:08:44. > :08:45.decide that their next strike is going to be
:08:46. > :08:47.during the Aintree Festival. I sincerely hope that they think
:08:48. > :08:52.twice about doing that. We have tried to talk today, but,
:08:53. > :08:55.as I say, they have been fruitless and the company don't want to talk
:08:56. > :08:58.about the issues that are at the heart of the dispute,
:08:59. > :09:01.so we have got no alternative than to recommend further
:09:02. > :09:03.industrial action takes place. That will be decided by our
:09:04. > :09:06.executive in London in 24 hours. Police have revealed that a body
:09:07. > :09:08.found following a Lancaster house Cem Bora was thought
:09:09. > :09:12.to have been trapped inside the property
:09:13. > :09:14.on Conniston Road early An 18-year-old man and a 12-year-old
:09:15. > :09:18.boy managed to escape, Investigations into the cause
:09:19. > :09:27.of the fire are continuing. A coroner has concluded
:09:28. > :09:29.a 13-year-old boy's death was misadventure,
:09:30. > :09:31.after he was crushed under The court heard Kaden Gowers
:09:32. > :09:34.probably released the handbrake, and was run over as he tried to stop
:09:35. > :09:41.the car rolling downhill. Police investigating the escape
:09:42. > :09:43.of convicted murderer Shaun Walmsley have offered a ?20,000 reward
:09:44. > :09:46.of his own money for He remains at large after being
:09:47. > :09:52.sprung from custody during a visit Detectives say people
:09:53. > :09:56.shouldn't approach Walmsley, as he could be with the armed men
:09:57. > :10:07.who helped him escape. With child literacy levels below
:10:08. > :10:09.the national average, there's a need to read
:10:10. > :10:11.for youngsters in Blackpool, and a group of dads in the town have
:10:12. > :10:15.done their bit to help. The fathers have been brightening up
:10:16. > :10:17.one of the town's libraries They have renovated part of their
:10:18. > :10:26.local library. Once upon a time a group of dads,
:10:27. > :10:29.called the Blackpool Super Dads, This is a story of how
:10:30. > :10:32.manpower's made a difference. This was the Palatine Library before
:10:33. > :10:36.the group got to work. It's the local dads that have done
:10:37. > :10:42.this and it is about us getting It is the best thing
:10:43. > :10:47.we could have done really, and seeing where we are
:10:48. > :10:51.now, it's fantastic. These dads know how
:10:52. > :11:01.important reading is. What is your favourite book?
:11:02. > :11:09.Tiger. Is your dad a good reader?
:11:10. > :11:15.100 Dalmatians. 101 Dalmatians, yes.
:11:16. > :11:16.You are an expert in these books? She is my sixth child so I am used
:11:17. > :11:19.to reading. All this has been paid
:11:20. > :11:21.for by Lottery funding under initiative, to improve children's
:11:22. > :11:32.early lives in a town where literacy It is about giving babies in
:11:33. > :11:37.Blackpool the opportunity to thrive and be part of a literate community,
:11:38. > :11:40.so when they go to school they feel ready to learn and that their
:11:41. > :11:42.imagination is there and children have that opportunity to grow that.
:11:43. > :11:44.And the dads have bonded over this building project.
:11:45. > :11:52.When you go to children's centres it is full of ladies and children, so
:11:53. > :11:56.it was nice to meet a group of dads to put this structure together
:11:57. > :11:57.together and create a sense of community.
:11:58. > :12:00.And the dads here are hoping this story has a happy ever after ending
:12:01. > :12:10.Stuart Pollitt, BBC North West Tonight, Blackpool.
:12:11. > :12:17.That is a library and they have done a beautiful job.
:12:18. > :12:20.The Conservative candidate for Mayor of Greater Manchester Sean Anstee
:12:21. > :12:24.He launched it at the Bury Black Pudding Company alongside Tory Local
:12:25. > :12:27.One of his policies includes looking at extending
:12:28. > :12:31.He said employment will be a key priority.
:12:32. > :12:37.I want to make sure skills and employment, and that people become
:12:38. > :12:41.work ready, are key to me to ensure we have a good economy that is able
:12:42. > :12:44.to support a healthy and more prosperous Greater Manchester.
:12:45. > :12:47.They call it the lost canal - one of the region's most
:12:48. > :12:48.beautiful waterways - but the Northern Reaches
:12:49. > :12:50.of the Lancaster Canal through Lancashire and Cumbria have
:12:51. > :12:54.In some places, it's disappeared altogether.
:12:55. > :12:57.But enthusiasts are campaigning for it to be reopened
:12:58. > :13:05.This is a journey few get the chance to enjoy -
:13:06. > :13:07.the winding waters of the Lancaster Canal's
:13:08. > :13:12.For decades, this 14-mile stretch has been
:13:13. > :13:17.unnavigable, crisscrossed and blocked by modern roads -
:13:18. > :13:20.in some parts overgrown, in others filled in.
:13:21. > :13:25.Well, a determined group of volunteers and enthusiasts aren't
:13:26. > :13:31.prepared to let this canal a lost canal forever.
:13:32. > :13:32.The navigable section of the Lancaster Canal,
:13:33. > :13:34.from Preston to Carnforth, attracts canal boats
:13:35. > :13:39.This is the stretch at Galgate near Lancaster.
:13:40. > :13:42.But once these boats reach Tewitfield, just north of Carnforth,
:13:43. > :13:50.As you'll see, there's an embankment been built up here to enable
:13:51. > :13:53.the A-road over the motorway, and that's causing a big blockage.
:13:54. > :13:57.They are significant challenges, but our engineers have been working
:13:58. > :14:00.on solutions over the past number of years, and we do believe we've
:14:01. > :14:04.got solutions to each of the blockages that we encounter.
:14:05. > :14:05.Hello, David. Hello.
:14:06. > :14:11.At Crooklands, I made up with the crew of the only boat that
:14:12. > :14:15.still gets the chance regularly to sail the Northern Reaches.
:14:16. > :14:18.The 28-foot Water Witch is operated by the Lancaster Canal trust
:14:19. > :14:24.to promote its long campaign to reopen the Northern Reaches.
:14:25. > :14:28.What will it mean to you to be able to ride a canal boat again down
:14:29. > :14:39.But, no, it would mean so much, just to be able to do it.
:14:40. > :14:41.The Lancaster Canal Regeneration Partnership has just secured
:14:42. > :14:46.?184,000 to reinstate the tow path along this filled in section
:14:47. > :14:51.from Kendal to Natland - one small step on the way
:14:52. > :14:58.There are lots of other canals in the south of England where,
:14:59. > :15:03.bit by bit, bridge by bridge, culverts and blockages
:15:04. > :15:07.are being moved and the navigable length gradually gets longer.
:15:08. > :15:10.Today's restoration estimate is around ?100 million,
:15:11. > :15:15.and enthusiasts say it's a price worth paying.
:15:16. > :15:25.Peter Marshall, BBC North West Tonight.
:15:26. > :15:29.It is fascinating and fantastic pictures. It is apparently called
:15:30. > :15:31.the Black and White canal because they took Cole up to Kendall and
:15:32. > :15:32.brought down limestone. And you can see more on that
:15:33. > :15:35.on tonight's Inside Out programme Richard joins us now for the sport
:15:36. > :15:39.Have you got your breath back after yesterday's
:15:40. > :15:45.Manchester City-Liverpool match? It was certainly breathless and from
:15:46. > :15:49.the first minute to the last. Even the post-match manager
:15:50. > :15:50.interviews were entertaining, Gael Clichy's clumsy challenge
:15:51. > :15:56.on Roberto Firmino led to the James Milner penalty that
:15:57. > :15:59.gave Liverpool the lead six minutes Kevin De Bruyne's fabulous
:16:00. > :16:04.cross and a tidy finish from Aguero levelled it up,
:16:05. > :16:08.but Adam Lallana missed a golden chance to win it for the visitors
:16:09. > :16:11.and somehow missed his kick. A 1-1 draw and delight
:16:12. > :16:17.for both bosses. It is one of the most special days
:16:18. > :16:20.of my life, because, after the defeat on Tuesday,
:16:21. > :16:22.Wednesday was so tough for us, and to recover how we recovered
:16:23. > :16:25.today, with this mentality to play Of course, it's a success
:16:26. > :16:29.to get a point at City It happens not every day,
:16:30. > :16:50.so that means, yeah, One postscript from this match, City
:16:51. > :16:51.have been charged by the FA for failing to control their players
:16:52. > :16:52.when the penalty was awarded. So, City stay third and Liverpool
:16:53. > :16:54.fourth, but Manchester United have closed the gap on their great rivals
:16:55. > :16:58.after a 3-1 win at Middlesbrough. United are four points
:16:59. > :17:01.behind Liverpool in fifth Onto Saturday's action now,
:17:02. > :17:07.and Burnley earned only their third away point of the season
:17:08. > :17:10.with a goalless draw at Sunderland. Everton's wantaway striker
:17:11. > :17:13.Romelu Lukaku put his contract issues aside to score his 20th
:17:14. > :17:16.and 21st goals of the season, as Ronald Koeman's side moved level
:17:17. > :17:24.on points with Arsenal in sixth. In the Championship,
:17:25. > :17:26.Blackburn Rovers led twice in the Lancashire derby
:17:27. > :17:28.with Preston North End, Elliott Bennett's piledriver
:17:29. > :17:29.opening the scoring. But North End earned
:17:30. > :17:31.a point in injury time when Aiden McGeady's goal
:17:32. > :17:39.made it 2-2. Into League One now,
:17:40. > :17:41.where a draw for Fleetwood and victory for Bolton saw them
:17:42. > :17:44.leapfrog the Cod Army into second. Filipe Marais scored Wanderers
:17:45. > :17:47.winner as they came from behind to beat Northampton 2-1
:17:48. > :17:51.at the Macron Stadium. And Rochdale ended their winless run
:17:52. > :17:54.at ten, Nathaniel Mendez Laing's goal helping them thrash
:17:55. > :18:01.Gillingham 4-1. In League Two, Crewe made it three
:18:02. > :18:04.wins from four by beating Colchester at home but how about this
:18:05. > :18:06.for a goal from Blackpool's It's the kind of goal more often
:18:07. > :18:11.seen on a rugby field, but his chip-and-chase effort
:18:12. > :18:14.secured his side a 3-1 win at Newport, and keeps
:18:15. > :18:16.alive the Seasiders hopes Over the last few years,
:18:17. > :18:22.whenever we've reported on Macclesfield Town,
:18:23. > :18:25.it's been a bad news story - relegation from the Football League,
:18:26. > :18:28.serious financial woes, concerns Tonight, though, the Silkmen
:18:29. > :18:33.are on their way to Wembley. They beat Tranmere on Saturday
:18:34. > :18:37.to make the final of the FA Trophy. Rovers will now focus on their push
:18:38. > :18:40.for promotion, while Macc are planning
:18:41. > :18:44.for their big day out. For both clubs,
:18:45. > :18:51.this was about one thing - What would it mean to
:18:52. > :18:56.all of the fans if you do It doesn't matter whether you are
:18:57. > :19:02.Man United or whether you are Macclesfield Town,
:19:03. > :19:05.you always want your team to get The priority for these two sides
:19:06. > :19:09.is to try to get back into the Football League, but,
:19:10. > :19:12.after disappointments in recent seasons, a Wembley cup final
:19:13. > :19:19.would be just the ticket. There was little between the two
:19:20. > :19:22.sides and, with home advantage, the Tranmere certainly
:19:23. > :19:25.had their moments, but it was Macclesfield Town
:19:26. > :19:29.who found the crucial way through. Ollie Norman with a terrific finish,
:19:30. > :19:36.scoring the only goal in the game. Rovers tried to respond, but
:19:37. > :19:42.Macclesfield's defence held firm. So, it's Macclesfield Town who win
:19:43. > :19:46.the day, and Tranmere Rovers can now concentrate on their push
:19:47. > :19:48.for promotion, but, for these Macclesfield fans,
:19:49. > :19:53.and of course the team, they can look forward to that
:19:54. > :19:57.big day out at Wembley. I can't believe we are
:19:58. > :20:00.going to Wembley now. How much are you looking
:20:01. > :20:02.forward to that? I've shaved my head for them
:20:03. > :20:09.to make money for charity. I've written a book and they've sold
:20:10. > :20:12.the proceeds of that, so... To get to Wembley, you know,
:20:13. > :20:21.it's just the icing Obviously we are devastated,
:20:22. > :20:27.because we set out to try to take We haven't achieved that,
:20:28. > :20:32.so we are gutted for When you have been at somewhere
:20:33. > :20:37.for so long, and you know everybody at the club and what it means
:20:38. > :20:40.to people, then it This team will take on York City
:20:41. > :20:47.in the final, with a chance for Macclesfield to win the FA
:20:48. > :20:50.Trophy for a third time - an opportunity they will be
:20:51. > :21:01.determined to make the most of. In Rugby League, amateur side
:21:02. > :21:05.Haydock put up a brave fight in their Challenge Cup tie
:21:06. > :21:07.at Championship Oldham. The club we featured
:21:08. > :21:09.on Friday scored three tries In Super League, Salford ended
:21:10. > :21:12.Castleford's unbeaten start to the season,
:21:13. > :21:14.Gareth O'Brien's late drop goal See all the action from that
:21:15. > :21:19.and all the weekend's games on The Super League Show,
:21:20. > :21:22.right here on BBC One Finally from me, a World Record
:21:23. > :21:28.was broken this weekend Shantelle Gaston-Hird knocked
:21:29. > :21:34.an amazing 15 minutes off the record for the fastest half marathon
:21:35. > :21:38.by a woman running backwards! She finished in just under
:21:39. > :21:42.two hours 32 minutes. Shantelle ran to raise awareness
:21:43. > :21:43.for the anti-bullying The idea behind running
:21:44. > :21:59.backwards is to not be afraid I presume the two guys either side
:22:00. > :22:07.are helping to make sure she knows she is all right. So that she does
:22:08. > :22:11.not trip over. I wondered where it went too. I think that is a terrific
:22:12. > :22:18.achievement, really. It is brilliant and she is in it for a good cause.
:22:19. > :22:24.Thank you very much. Nice to get a bit of backwards half marathon
:22:25. > :22:25.running. Thank you, Richard. And well done to the runner.
:22:26. > :22:27.When people see that Maria Belton has two young children
:22:28. > :22:30.with Down's syndrome, they'll often offer sympathetic words of comfort,
:22:31. > :22:33.But Maria says there's nothing to be sorry about.
:22:34. > :22:36.She wants the world to know how proud she is of them.
:22:37. > :22:42.She writes a blog about family life in Wirral and hopes international
:22:43. > :22:44.Down's Awareness Day tomorrow will help change attitudes.
:22:45. > :22:48.Our chief reporter Dave Guest has been to meet Maria and her family.
:22:49. > :22:50.# You'll never know, dear, how much I love you...#
:22:51. > :22:55.mum Maria, dad Neil, Ellie, who is 14, Joseph, two and a half,
:22:56. > :23:05.It just so happens that the two youngest members
:23:06. > :23:08.There's differences, of course there's differences,
:23:09. > :23:13.but there are more similarities, far more similarities
:23:14. > :23:14.between our children and a typical child
:23:15. > :23:24.You have decided to go public with your family's story to mark
:23:25. > :23:25.International Down's Syndrome Awareness Day tomorrow.
:23:26. > :23:29.We've had enough of, sort of, people feeling sorry for us,
:23:30. > :23:34.because there's nothing to feel sorry for us about.
:23:35. > :23:38.In fact, Maria calls Joey and Nancy her miracle babies.
:23:39. > :23:40.After Ellie's birth, Maria was told a medical condition
:23:41. > :23:44.would prevent her from having any further children.
:23:45. > :23:49.When she fell pregnant again, Maria was told the chances of a second
:23:50. > :23:54.She refused offers of tests to make sure.
:23:55. > :24:05.If this baby has Down's syndrome, then she'll have Down's syndrome.
:24:06. > :24:08.What do you think of your brother and sister?
:24:09. > :24:10.Well, I think they are absolutely gorgeous,
:24:11. > :24:12.and they are just so funny, and, to be quite honest,
:24:13. > :24:15.I don't really think about the whole diagnosis a whole lot.
:24:16. > :24:17.You know, just, like, in general, I just think,
:24:18. > :24:22.What do you hope for the future with Joseph and Nancy?
:24:23. > :24:24.I hope they are treated as equals as everybody else.
:24:25. > :24:27.I think we just want to make sure the kids can do
:24:28. > :24:30.whatever they want to do, and achieve whatever
:24:31. > :24:32.they're aiming to achieve, and not be held back
:24:33. > :24:37.because of other people's attitudes towards them.
:24:38. > :24:47.Dave Guest, BBC North West Tonight, Wirral.
:24:48. > :24:50.And it is a Downs syndrome awareness Day tomorrow and they are doing a
:24:51. > :24:52.fantastic job to raise awareness. Now let's take a look
:24:53. > :25:02.at the weather. Astronomically, it's the change of
:25:03. > :25:06.the season is today. It is as is bringing. Astronomically
:25:07. > :25:09.called this afternoon, with a massive drop in temperatures. We
:25:10. > :25:13.will return to the frost and a lot like winter through the next few
:25:14. > :25:18.days. As the front they would do, fantastic spells of sunshine, but a
:25:19. > :25:22.horrible start to the day, with this front causing problems. Watch the
:25:23. > :25:27.arrows with the error originating from here as we had to the next few
:25:28. > :25:32.days, so no doubt about being stuck in the cold are perhaps until around
:25:33. > :25:36.Friday. Into the weekend, less cold and the weather settles down. An
:25:37. > :25:39.area of low pressure tracking as, on the pressure charts moving across
:25:40. > :25:43.and bringing the weather fronts bumping into the cold air, and there
:25:44. > :25:48.could be sleet and snow in the forecast. Could be sleet and snow
:25:49. > :25:51.through the night tonight. You saw that swathes of rain clear and
:25:52. > :25:53.scattered showers left Right now. Through the evening and overnight,
:25:54. > :26:16.that is the story. The wind is brisk and warm, coming from
:26:17. > :26:18.a cold direction. You will be let out and about. Closed or 30 mph in
:26:19. > :26:21.coastal areas. Into the cold air when it bulbs you will see sleet and
:26:22. > :26:23.snow on higher-level routes, never where else the potential for a
:26:24. > :26:26.frost, really, but towns and cities with strong wind stays up above
:26:27. > :26:29.zero. In places around to Celsius and a four Celsius around the cost,
:26:30. > :26:32.but warm if you are out and about -- called and raw. If the ground is
:26:33. > :26:34.slippery where you live, that should not last for too long, nor should
:26:35. > :26:36.any frost, because the sun is up earlier. Again, you will see
:26:37. > :26:40.scattered showers on higher-level routes, sleet and snow and hail a
:26:41. > :26:44.possibility. Some showers lively and southern parts don't see as many,
:26:45. > :26:48.wanted as past lunchtime some showers die away. At wind is strong
:26:49. > :26:53.all the way through, and cold and brawl the way through. The numbers,
:26:54. > :26:57.six or eight Celsius, then waiting to see what happens tomorrow night.
:26:58. > :27:00.Another area of rain works through and there could be a light dusting
:27:01. > :27:06.on the ground of highest level routes. Heading into spring, winter
:27:07. > :27:10.is not yet done with us. It is awful. But not everywhere get
:27:11. > :27:14.it because it is the deal that will be cold.
:27:15. > :27:17.Possibly not a good thing to do, running in flip-flops, but Kate
:27:18. > :27:20.Thompson said she watched the woman running backwards yesterday and a
:27:21. > :27:23.man running in flip-flops. As if it is not harsh enough
:27:24. > :27:25.already. We are not doing that. Thank you for
:27:26. > :27:59.watching. Good night. The 24-year-old man
:28:00. > :28:02.has been charged with murder. You made sure an innocent man
:28:03. > :28:05.is charged! What gives you the right
:28:06. > :28:08.to say that he's innocent?